Hello,
This is a great day in WPKG development. Due to the fact that the current WPKG
1.1.3 release candidate did not show major issues I've decided to release it.
Since there were many fixes and especially also many enhancements I've decided
to release this version as WPKG version 1.2.
WPKG 1.2 is identical to the previous 1.1.3-RC16 pre-release. Note that this
version still includes 100% compatibility with previous WPKG 1.1. So upgrading
is supposed to be as easy as replacing wpkg.js with the latest version. Dueto
this fact I will discontinue support for WPKG 1.1.x. Please upgrade to version
1.2 as soon as possible.
If you encounter any issues please contact the community on the mailing list or
file a bug report.
The release package can be downloaded here:
<http://wpkg.org/files/stable/1.2.x/WPKG-1.2.zip>
Of course you can also just get the latest wpkg.js from SVN:
<http://wpkg.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/wpkg/wpkg/stable/1.2/>
I would like to take the chance to say THANK YOU to the community for the
loyalty and support in the past years. The project has received many inputsfrom
the community and I really hope people continue to support us in any way. No
matter whether you add unattended switch information to the wiki, test features,
file bugs, submit updates, discuss new features, support other WPKG users on the
mailing list or just simply use WPKG. All this will help us to continue this
great project.
Complete list of changes since WPKG 1.1.2 release:
===============================================================================
= CHANGES FOR 1.2 release
===============================================================================
Change notes
============
WPKG Version: 1.2
Author: : Rainer Meier <skybeam (at) users.sourceforge.net>
Date : 2011-07-16
Status : release pending
Changes/fixes visible to the user:
Summary:
- Fixed IP-address match in case 3 "." are used in host matching string.
- Fixed package removal procedure exception in case of /noremove flag is used.
- Fixed removal of settings entry in case of /noremove and no package checks.
- Allow folders to be checked with file checks.
- Allows recursive search for uninstall entries in registry
- Enhance wrapper.js to use sysnative cmd.exe.
- Disabled recursive registry uninstall checking again due to slow execution.
- Closing STDIN when executing commands.
- Extended host matching for OS, IP, domain and groups.
- Fix for crash if interface has no IP bound to it.
- Fix for registry exist checks not returning true.
- Fix for execute test writes null values to the logs.
- Fix included aesthetic break.
- Extended host attribute match for host architecture.
- Extended host attribute match for environment variables.
- Support for host attribute matches in <package/> definitions within profiles.
- Small fixes and optimizations.
- New /noDownload switch.
- Fixed debug mode (broken since introduced advanced host checks).
- Added extended host attribute match for package commands.
- Added package pre-check attributes to package nodes.
- Fixed ignore of lcid in package variables.
- Cosmetic fix in extended host matching debug output.
- Allow multiple packages to be installed/removed/upgraded in one-shot.
- Allow variable expansion in file size checks.
- Fix for null-reference exception if package variable did not specify lcid.
- Added tabular output to report.pl
- Fixed references to wpkg.org in profiles.xsd
- Fixed change log typos.
- Fixed invalid read of "uninstalldate" attribute.
- Fixed typos in comments within wpkg.js.
- Fixed additional typos in README.
- Minor usage message formatting fixes.
- Added printing of expanded command-line in debug message.
- Fixed adding of packages to local DB if precheck-upgrade=always succeeds.
- Added extended host matching in variables.
- Added lcid matching for all extended host match supported nodes.
- Added host information to local <wpkg /> settings node.
- Using "hostname" now for extended host attribute matching instead of "host".
- Fixed LCID extended host matching variable clash.
- Fixed termination of commands which run into timeout.
- Fixed classic host name matching.
- Added support for IA64 architecture.
- Fixed handling of failed commands with variables in path.
- Fixed process termination when command times out.
- Added sample package templates.
- Included updated Firefox example package.
- Included updated sample profile.
- Final release as version 1.2.
NEW: Updated IP matching algorithm to prevent accidental matching if regexpor
host name is used which uses exactly 3 "." within the string.
Thanks to Stefan Pendl for reporting.
FIX: Fixed package removal procedure in case /noremove flag is set. WPKG would
have failed (exception thrown) in case /noremove was used and a package
is detected NOT to be installed.
FIX: In case /noremove is used and the package does not define any checks WPKG
is unable to detect if the package is still installed or not. Previously
WPKG was assuming that the package is not installed and removed it from
the local settings file. This has been changed. The package will now only
be removed from the settings file if it defines some checks which allow
WPKG to clearly detect that the package is not installed on the system.
So if the package does not define any checks WPKG assumes it's still
installed on the system and does not remove its entry from the local
settings file (wpkg.xml).
FIX: Updated "file" type checks to match folders too. Now a check of type file
for condition exist yields true for a patch referring either a file or
a folder.
Thanks to Joe for reporting.
NEW: WPKG now allows uninstall entries to be defined in sub-nodes of the
uninstall registry key. I was unable to verify that Windows supports such
entries but as reported RationalPlan Viewer seems to add such a sub-node:
Uninstall\RationalPlan\Viewer.
There might be other programs doing the same.
During tests Windows XP and Windows 7 were ignoring such entries but now
WPKG supports these entries now. (NOTE: Disabled again, read below)
NEW: Enhanced wrapper.js to use sysnative directory. The sysnative directory
allows 32-bit programs to access the 64-bit binaries within
%SystemRoot%\system32\. This way it is not necessary any more to copythe
64-bit version of cmd.exe to the 64-bit\ sub-folder since the wrappercan
launch the locally available 64-bit cmd.exe.
MOD: Disabled recursive uninstall checks again. Reading registry keys
recursively is very slow with WSH and since there are typically
many sub-keys within the uninstall locations this causes a very long
delay each time an uninstall check is used.
It's recommended to use a registry value check instead of an uninstall
check in order to check for the status of an application which puts its
uninstall entry within a sub-key of the uninstall keys in the registry.
MOD: WPKG now closes STDIN when executing external commands. Some applications
seem to wait for STDIN to be closed before they exit. Microsoft PowerShell
seems to be one of the affected applications.
Since closing STDIN should not have negative effects (WPKG will not write
to STDIN) it's supposed to be safe to close it.
Thanks to Stéphane Bilqué for reporting.
NEW: Many extensions in host matching. Now a host entry in hosts.xml is allowed
to include the following attributes:
<host name='host-x'
profile-id='profile-reference'
os="windows 7"
ipaddresses="^192\.168\.1\..*"
domainname="^domain$"
groups="^group.*$" />
Note: All special parameters (os, ipaddresses, domainname, groups) are
specified as regular expressions. Especially keep this in mind when
specifying IP-addresses or any parameter including periods (.). As a
period in regular expression means "any character". So keep in mind to
escape special regular expression characters.
Note that the group attribute refers to regular Windows NT group
membership and not to Active-Directory organization units.
Many thanks to Daniel Dehennin for continued support of this changes.
It just almost took as long as finishing DNF to include it. *sigh*
FIX: Included fix for bug 196 which could make WPKG crash in case no IP
address is assigned to a network card.
Thanks to Daniel Dehennin again.
FIX: Included fix for bug 199 where registry exist checks did not return true.
Thanks to Daniel Dehennin again.
FIX: Included fix for bug 200 where execute test fallback to 'exitcodeequalto'
in 'execute' tests writes null values to the logs.
Thanks to Daniel Dehennin again.
FIX: Included aesthetic break statement in check condition for uninstall checks.
Thanks to Daniel Dehennin again.
NEW: Extended host attribute match now allows to match architecture using
architecture="<arc>" attribute. The following architectures are currently
supported:
x86 32-bit operating system
x64 64-bit operating system
Note: You will have to match x86 also if you run Windows 32-bit on
AMD64/EMT64/x64 hardware.
NEW: Extended host attribute match allows to match environment variables using
environment="variable1=^regexp$|variable2=regexp..." attribute.
Please note that regular expressions are matched case-insensitive and
multiple variables have to be separated by the pipe ('|') character.
Please also note that in case you use WPKG-client the system-user
environment might differ from the environment you see when opening a
command prompt and typing 'set'. Some variables might be missing and
others might have different content. So use with caution.
NEW: Extended use of host matches. Now WPKG supports host matches from previous
update not only in <host /> definitions but also in <package />
definitions used within <profile /> nodes. This allows profiles where
certain packages are applied only if specific host-conditions match.
For example:
<profile id='default'>
<package package-id='AdobeReader' os="windows 7" architecture="x64" />
<package package-id='audacity' />
<package package-id='pidgin' os="windows 7" />
<package package-id='firefox' environment="NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS=^4$" />
</profile>
This example would install "AdobeReader" only on systems with Windows7
64-bit edition running while "pidgin" is installed on all Windows 7 hosts
regardless of the architecture. The "firefox" package would be installed
only if WPKG runs within an environment which defines the
NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS environment variable to the value "4".
The "audacity" packages would be installed on any host which gets the
'default' profile assigned.
MOD: Some smaller fixes and optimizations.
NEW: Added /noDownload option (and noDownload property in config.xml) to
disable downloads globally. When the switch is used then WPKG just ignores
any download specification. Use with caution as your install/upgrade/...
commands might depend on downloaded files. So make sure that you fetch
the files which would be downloaded prior to WPKG execution.
Thanks to Marco Gaiarin.
FIX: Fixed using of lcid="<lcid>" attribute within variable definition in
packages. It was documented in packages.xsd but not implemented in wpkg.js.
Fixes bug 206.
Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
FIX: Fixed bug when using /debug switch (or implicit enable of /debug by using
/dryrun switch or config.xml flag). The issue was introduced with newhost
attribute matching and advanced host identification in debug messages.
Fixes bug 210. Thanks to Stefan Pendl for reporting.
NEW: Extended host attribute verification is now allowed to be used in package
commands too. Commands which specify additional host attributes are
ignored if one of the extended attributes do not match the executing host.
e.g.
<install cmd="command"
...
os="windows 7"
ipaddresses="^192\.168\.1\..*"
domainname="^domain$"
groups="^group.*$"
architecture="x86" />
Note: All special parameters (os, ipaddresses, domainname, groups) are
specified as regular expressions. Especially keep this in mind when
specifying IP-addresses or any parameter including periods (.). As a
period in regular expression means "any character". So keep in mind to
escape special regular expression characters.
As a result you can use extended host check attributes in the following
locations:
- host matching
<host name="hostname"
profile-id="profile"
...
architecture="x64"
...
/>
- profile packages
<package package-id="package"
...
architecture="x64"
...
/>
- package commands
<install cmd="command-line"
...
architecture="x64"
...
/>
<remove cmd="command-line"
...
architecture="x64"
...
/>
<upgrade cmd="command-line"
...
architecture="x64"
...
/>
<downgrade cmd="command-line"
...
architecture="x64"
...
/>
NEW: Added attributes to package nodes which allow to control whether checks
shall be execute before install/upgrade/downgrade/remove. By default WPKG
only executes checks before first installation in order to prevent re-
installing a package which is already installed. Using the new attributes
it allows you to enable these checks before upgrade/downgrade/remove too.
For example if you use precheck-upgrade="always" and upgrade a package,
then WPKG will first run the checks and if they succeed WPKG will skip
the execution of upgrade commands and just assume this version is already
installed.
Be careful when using these attributes as it might lead WPKG to skip
upgrades/downgrades if your checks are not sufficiently specific. For
example if your check just checks for an uninstall entry existence which
is true for the old and the new version, then precheck-upgrade="always"
would make WPKG believe that the upgrade has been performed already as
the uninstall check from the updated package succeeds. So make sure to
include some checks which are true for the new package, but not for the
old one.
Here is some documentation on the attributes (all of them are optional):
<package ...
precheck-install="never|always"
precheck-remove="never|always"
precheck-upgrade="never|always"
precheck-downgrade="never|always"
/>
Notes on "precheck-install":
Defines how package checks are used during package
installation.
Currently supported values:
"always" (default): When a package is new to the
host then first the checks are run in order to
verify whether the package is already installed. If
the checks succeed then it is assumed that no
further installation is needed. The package is
silently added to the host without executing any
commands.
"never": When a package is new to the host then the
install commands are run in any case (without doing
checks first). Note: Checks will still be done after
package installation to verify whether installation
was successful.
Notes on "precheck-remove":
Defines how package checks are used during package
removal.
Currently supported values:
"always": When a package is removed from a
host then the checks will be executed before removal
is processes. If the checks fail this potentially
means that the package has been removed already. In
such case the package remove commands will be
skipped.
"never" (default): When a package is about
to be removed from the host then WPKG will execute
the remove commands in any case without executing
the checks first. Note: Checks will still be done
after package removal to verify whether the removal
was successful.
Notes on "precheck-upgrade":
Defines how package checks are used during package
upgrade.
Currently supported values:
"always": When a package is upgraded the
checks specified will be be executed before the
upgrade takes place. If checks succeed, then the
upgrade will not be performed (WPKG just assumes
that the new version is already applied correctly.
Please note that your checks shall verify a specific
software version and not just a generic check which
is true for all versions. If your checks are true
for the old version too then WPKG would never
perform the upgrade in this mode.
"never" (default): When a package is about
to be upgraded then WPKG will execute the upgrade
commands in any case without executing the checks
first. This is the recommended behavior. Note:
Checks will still be done after package upgrade to
verify whether the upgrade was successful.
Notes on "precheck-downgrade":
Defines how package checks are used during package
downgrade.
Currently supported values:
"always": When a package is downgraded the
checks specified will be be executed before the
downgrade takes place. If checks succeed, then the
downgrade will not be performed (WPKG just assumes
that the old version is already applied correctly.
Please note that your checks shall verify a specific
software version and not just a generic check which
is true for all versions. If your checks are true
for the new/current version too then WPKG would
never perform the downgrade in this mode.
"never" (default): When a package is about
to be downgraded then WPKG will execute the
downgrade commands in any case without executing the
checks first. This is the recommended behavior.
Note: Checks will still be done after package
downgrade to verify whether the downgrade was
successful.
This implements a change request reported in Bugzilla report 180.
FIX: Fixed using of lcid="<lcid>" attribute within variable definition in
packages. It was documented in packages.xsd but not implemented in wpkg.js.
Fixes bug 206.
Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
FIX: Fixed cosmetic issue in host matching output.
Fixes bug 211. Thanks to Stefan Pendl for reporting.
NEW: Allow to specify multiple packages to be installed/removed/upgraded on
command-line. Just specify a comma-separated list of packages:
cscript wpkg.js /install:package1,package2,...
Implements bugzilla 204. Thanks to Michael Croes for reporting.
NEW: Allowing use of environment variables in file size checks:
<check type="file"
condition="sizeequals"
path="%ProgramFiles%\%PKG_DST%"
value="%PKG_SIZE%" />
Fixes bug report 212. Thanks to Stefan Pendl for reporting.
FIX: Fixed additional issue in package variable LCID matching in case variable
was defined but no lcid attribute was present (which should be fully
supported).
Support for multiple comma-separated LCID values added.
Fixes bug 206.
NEW: Added tabular output for the listing to report.pl script.
Thanks to Stefan Pendl for providing the update.
Fixes bug 213.
FIX: Fixed profiles.xsd reference to example.org instead of wpkg.org.
Thanks to Stefan Pendl for reporting. Fixes bug 214.
FIX: Fixed typos in change log files.
Thanks to Stefan Pendl for review. Fixes bug 215.
FIX: Fixed minior formatting errors in usage message.
Fixes bug 220. Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
NEW: Printing command + expanded command in debug message when executing
commands.
Fixes bug 221. Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
FIX: Packages which were already updated by the user (detected by
precheck-update=always) were not added to the local package database.
As a result such packages were checked over and over again for upgrade
on each WPKG-run.
Fixes bug 219. Thanks to Heiko Helmle.
NEW: Supporting extended host matching in variables.
Fixes bug 209. Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
NEW: Added generic lcid matching for all XML elements which support extended
host matching. Now the following attributes can be matched:
os="windows 7"
ipaddresses="^192\.168\.1\..*"
domainname="^domain$"
groups="^group.*$"
architecture="x86"
lcid="407,c07,1407,1007,807"
These matches can be used within the following XML elements now:
In hosts.xml:
<host name="..." proifile-id="..." os="..." ... />
<variable name="..." value="..." os="..." ... />
In profiles.xml:
<variable name="..." value="..." os="..." ... />
<package package-id="..." os="..." ... />
In packages.xml:
<variable name="..." value="..." os="..." ... />
<install cmd="..." os="..." />
<upgrade cmd="..." os="..." />
<downgrade cmd="..." os="..." />
<remove cmd="..." os="..." />
Implements request filed in bug 209. Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
NEW: Added host attributes to <wpkg /> node of local settings file (wpkg.xml).
This allows analysis tools to get some more host information without
having to parse the log files. Example node:
<wpkg
hostname="admin-pc"
architecture="x64"
os="microsoft windows 7 professional, , , 6.1.7600"
ipaddresses="192.168.1.30"
domainname=""
groups=""
lcid="807"
/>
Fixes bug 217. Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
Update: This change did have a huge impact on test cases as wpkg-test
performs 1:1 comparison to expected wpkg.xml files. As a result all checks
fail. To work-around this issue unless the tests are updated I have
introduced a configuration switch in config.xml:
settingsHostInfo=true
If set to false, then WPKG will not write host attributes to local
wpkg.xml database.
FIX: Extended host attribute matching uses "hostname" now for host name
matching to prevent collision with name attributes in <variable />
nodes. Moreover this allows now to use classical "name=" attribute
in <host /> nodes as wel as the "hostname" extended match attribute.
In addition the "name=" attribute in <hosts /> have been declared as
optional now. This allows to use either legacy "name" matching which
does direct literal-match, IP-address match and regexp matching as well
as it allows to use extended host match attributes instead.
E.g. the following constructs are valid...
Classial host matching:
<host name="hostname" profile-id="p" />
IP-matching using classical name attribute:
<host name="192.168.1.1-255" profile-id="p" />
Alternative matching using extended host attributes omitting name
attribute:
<host ipaddresses="192\.168\.1\..*" profile-id="p" />
Combining classical matching with extended host matching:
<host name="hostname" os="windows 7" profile-id="p" />
Fixes additional bugs found in implementation for bug 209.
Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
FIX: Worked around a WSH issue of variable scopes in for loops.
Fixes LCID handling of extended host matches.
FIX: Fixed termination of processes if timeout is reached.
Fixes bug 222. Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
FIX: Fixed bug that "name" attribute in host node was completely ignored in
previous commits. Fixes classic host-name matching.
NEW: Added support for IA64 Itanium architecture. Basically this adds
the possibility to use os="ia64" in extended host attribute matching.
So the current list of supported architectures is:
x86: 32-bit Windows operating system running on x86 instruction set
x64: 64-bit Windows operating system running on x86-64 instruction set
ia64: 64-bit Windows operating system running on IA64 instruction set
Fixes bug 224. Thanks to Stefan Pendl for requesting.
FIX: Fixed error handling in case command execution fails AND command includes
variables. In such case WPKG did not properly return code -1 so the
<exit code="any" /> tag did not have any effect.
Fixes bug 226. Thanks to Bruno Choquet for reporting.
FIX: Fixed call of Terminate() method when command times out in order to
properly shut down the child process.
NEW: Added sample package templates which might help users to build their own
packages.
Fixes bug 225. Thanks to Stefan Pendl for sharing the templates.
MOD: Modified included sample packages for firefox and added adobe flash player
example. The new packages give some more insight on new WPKG features
as provided in WPKG-1.1.3.
Fixes bug 227. Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
MOD: Modified included example profile to show os attribute.
Fixes bug 228. Thanks to Stefan Pendl.
NEW: Final release of WPKG 1.1.3-RC16 as WPKG 1.2. No further code changes.
Thank you!
Rainer
PS. This is a forward of the announcement message which was sent to the
wpkg-announce mailing list. It was forwarded just to inform users which do not
read the announcement list.
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